Swart Donkey

“You are what you eat” is mostly literal. Our bodies regenerate every seven to ten years. When I started yoga, my diet had mostly descended ...

You don’t “go on a diet”. Diet is what you eat. We all eat. The question is, what is the quality of food you put in your mouth. The same i...

I am not a vegetarian. I don't eat particularly badly, but I am not even close to a role model. The ethical arguments (Factory Farming)...

Somewhere between narcissism and self-negation, sits self-care. We over-simplify into Good and Bad . Our stories, conversations and play a...

' Hara Hachi bu ' means eat until you are 80% full . Life is not a sprint. Part of the skill of Endurance is the ability to hold so...

Half of our job is looking after ourselves. Even if we care deeply about something, half of our job is protecting that ability to care. My ...

I have had a couple of attempts at becoming a Vegetarian. I am completely convinced that we need to dramatically reduced our meat consumpt...

Even in our own version of Utopia, we would likely be uncomfortable, anxious, and dreaming of alternatives. Reality can't compete with ...

There is a real conflict between what we want when we are cool, calm and collected, and when emotions get involved. Emotions are awesome. T...

Who says something often matters much more than what they say. An object's story often matters much more that what the object can do. H...

The advantage of living in a world with so many different ways of doing things is that no assumptions go unchallenged. We need to pick a pa...

Taste evolves. One of the ways we like to describe ourselves is by our likes and dislikes - but those aren't static. For the first 34 ...

When we are taught to debate at school we are given a side of the argument. The objective is to win. I know there are many styles of debati...

I just made Moong Dal for the first time. Yesterday I ate a Mango for the first time. The one is more embarrassing that the other. Moong Da...

' Sometimes you just do things '. Scott Jurek is an ultramarathoner who has won many of the sports most challenging events on multi...

I have found learning new languages incredibly difficult . I agree with Megan that part of why I have found it so incredibly difficult is ...

Guest Post: Ariella Rosanna Caira Ariella is a freelance musician and an electric cellist with Sterling EQ , earth and animal lover, yo...

Nassim Taleb takes an interesting approach in his books. He directly insults, on a regular basis, the people who are reading his books . He...